International Women’s Day 2018: “Time is now – Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives”.

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Interanational Women's Day 2018 © Switzerland Embassy in Zimbabwe.

This year, International Women’s Day comes on the heels of an unprecedented global movement for women’s rights, equality and justice. This has taken the form of global marches and campaigns, including #MeToo and #TimesUp, on issues ranging from sexual harassment to equal pay and women’s political representation.

Echoing the priority theme of the upcoming 62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, International Women’s Day will also draw attention to the rights and activism of rural women, who make up over a quarter of the world population.

Switzerland through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is working towards promoting gender equality in all development programmes around the world in such sectors as food security, health and livelihoods among others. The SDC is also supporting psychosocial services such as counselling for traumatised women because many of them have experienced terrible suffering: forced displacement, sexual violence or the loss of family members.

Join us to transform the momentum into action, to empower women in all settings, rural and urban, and to celebrate the activists who are working relentlessly to claim women’s rights and realize their full potential.

The #TimeisNow.